Thursday, September 1, 2005

AHMADINEJAD, CHAVEZ AND CASTRO

The United States will not be the first country in which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel in his first foreign visit as Iran's newly elected president. Scheduled to attend the summit of the United Nations General Assembly in New York in September, Ahmadinejad will instead be making a stop in Cuba and Venezuela before heading to the United States for the UN summit... (Adnki.com, 08/30/05.)

In 2001, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, visited Castro in Cuba. The aging communist dictator told Khamenei to help defeat the U.S. "as you toppled the Shah" in 1979. Castro also said together Cuba and Iran would bring America "to its knees." (WorldNetDaily.com, 08/31/05.)

[Editor's comment to Pat Robertson: How about "killing two three birds with one stone"...]